An ice protection assembly includes a pneumatic de-icer attached to an aircraft surface by a vertically aligned carbon nanotube loaded adhesive. The adhesive can be a pressure sensitive adhesive or a chemical adhesive loaded with vertically aligned carbon nanotubes.

Provided herein is a tape roll configured to include an adhesive associated with a color-changing dye to provide the user with a visible marker for the end of the tape roll. In certain aspects, the adhesive is associated with a redox indicator. In certain aspects, the redox indicator is activated upon exposure to air.

A medium such as an ink or sealant for disclosing movement is provided. Also provided are a tape having the medium applied to it, and a method of disclosing movement of one or more elements. The medium is applicable as a settable liquid or paste to components, such as a nut and bolt or a flexible hydraulic hose, for which untightening or kinking movement is to be detected. The medium has an appearance, e.g. color, and contains distributed microspheres containing a second liquid having a different, usually much brighter, appearance. Once the medium is set, unwanted movement, such as untightening of the nut or kinking of the hose, will fracture the microspheres and the second liquid will be released to transform the appearance of the medium and alert an observer.

A composition with latent adhesion, fuel cell stack with a bipolar plate assembly with latent adhesion and a method of assembling a fuel cell stack with a seal that has latent adhesion such that reactant or coolant leakage through the seal is reduced. Bipolar plates within the stack include reactant channels and coolant channels that are fluidly coupled to inlet and outlet flowpaths, all of which are formed within a coolant-engaging or reactant-engaging surface of the plate. One or more thin or low aspect-ratio seals are formed on a metal bead that is integrally formed on a surface of the plate and is used to help reduce leakage by maintaining fluid isolation of the reactants and coolant as they flow through their respective channels and flowpaths that are defined between adjacently placed plates. By proper formulation of the precursor materials that make up the seal, the activation of the adhesive bond formed between the seal and an adjacent surface within the fuel cell can be delayed to allow ample time to aligned and compressively join the cell assemblies in a stack housing. This in turn improves the ability of the seal and its adjacent surface to avoid seal damage and concomitant reactant or coolant leakage.

Provided is a pressure-sensitive adhesive structure including a carbon nanotube aggregate formed on a base material in which carbon nanotubes forming the carbon nanotube aggregate are hardly detached. The pressure-sensitive adhesive structure of the present invention includes: a base material; an intermediate layer; and a carbon nanotube aggregate layer, wherein the carbon nanotube aggregate layer includes a plurality of carbon nanotube aggregates, wherein the intermediate layer includes a layer containing the carbon nanotubes and a fixing agent, and wherein the intermediate layer has a thickness of 100 nm or more.

A transparent heat resistive adhesive tape with antistatic performance and a method of use thereof are provided. The adhesive tape includes at least a transparent backing film layer, an electrically conductive transparent layer disposed on the backing film layer, and a transparent acrylic adhesive layer disposed on the electrically conductive transparent layer. The adhesive tape has heat resistivity and antistatic performance on an adhesive side of the tape while maintaining good optical transparency.

Provided are an encapsulation film, an organic electronic device including the same, and a method of manufacturing the organic electronic device. Therefore, provided is the encapsulation film, which may form a structure capable of effectively blocking moisture or water entering the organic electronic device from the outside, and have excellent processability in a process of manufacturing a panel and excellent heat retention under a high-temperature and high-humidity condition.

A bonding method utilizing carbon nanotubes provides first and second objects to be bonded and a carbon nanotube structure. The carbon nanotube structure comprises a super-aligned carbon nanotube film comprising carbon nanotubes, the carbon nanotubes extending substantially along a same direction. The carbon nanotube structure is laid on surface of first object and surface of second object is pressed onto the carbon nanotube structure. Pressure being applied to the first object and the second object bonds the two together.

A double-sided utility tape which is solvent-free and able to function in a greatly extended range of temperatures includes a carbon nanotube structure. The carbon nanotube structure includes a super-aligned carbon nanotube film. The super-aligned carbon nanotube film includes carbon nanotubes. The carbon nanotubes extend substantially along a same direction, and an extending direction of the carbon nanotubes is substantially parallel to two bonded surfaces of the double-sided tape.

Apparatuses, systems and methods associated with procedures and adhesive elements for affixing components together are disclosed herein. In embodiments, an assembly may include a first component and a second component coupled to the first component. The assembly may further include a plurality of adhesive elements located between the first component and the second component, wherein the plurality of adhesive elements couple the second component to the first component, and wherein each adhesive element of the plurality of adhesive elements is equidistance from adjacent adhesive elements of the plurality of adhesive elements. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.